Cuba slams book by Castro's sister

Cuba slams book by Castro's sister
(AFP) – 33 minutes ago

HAVANA — Cuba's state-run media on Monday condemned a just-published
book in which Fidel Castro's sister admits she spied for the Central
Intelligence Agency.

The country's media added that the expose proves that the former Cuban
leader was a "victim" of decades of US targeting.

"The truth is in full view: Fidel Castro is the victim, the offended
person, the individual against whom they conspired," wrote the
government-run La Jiribilla magazine, saying the relentless effort to
target the Cuban leader was in "bad taste" and "low moral standing."

In acknowledging the cloak-and-dagger story, "the enemies of the
revolution for once were casting a spotlight on their misdeeds," the
periodical said.

The condemnation by the Havana government follows the admission by
Juanita Castro, 76, in her Spanish-language book "Fidel and Raul, My
Brothers. The Secret History" that she worked with the US spy agency.

In the book, which went on sale last week, Juanita, the fifth of seven
Castro siblings, writes that she aided the CIA during the 1960s, at a
time when the United States was plotting to assassinate her brother and
replace his Communist regime.

Now a resident of Miami, Juanita Castro wrote that she was contacted in
1964 after she broke with Fidel and Raul, the current president of Cuba,
and collaborated with the CIA both inside Cuba and when she went into
exile later that year.

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